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edition:eBook
category: Poetry
published: Jan 2008
ISBN:9781894078627
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Description
In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs's poems. They range from meditations on ancient/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony. - See more at: http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=170#sthash.FDW2nYPo.dpuf
Contributor Notes
Randall Maggs is the author of Timely Departures (poetry, 1994), and co-editor of two anthologies pairing Newfoundland and Canadian poems with those of Ireland. He is artistic director of Newfoundland's March Hare festival of music and literature, and teaches literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University.
Editorial Review
" ... An exquisite biographical novel, in the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid ... clearly [Maggs] has his own deep knowledge of what he calls Ôan ancient game with ancient rules' ... Night Work takes us into the darker, more complex psyche of a colder nation."--John Degen, The Globe and Mail
"Sawchuck could be the poster boy for that golden age of hockey ... also [the] face of the game's darker side ... [Night Work]'s a historical epic, complete with tragically flawed characters, high drama, gladiatorial combat, and occasional comic relief."--Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star
"Each of the dozens of short poems is a revelation ... a wonderful celebration of maskless, thinly padded goalies who wore bare-faced grimaces of pain, even fear, with their bruises that lasted deep into the summer."--Dave Stubbs, Montreal Gazette
